Marina Begun (Zelinsky)
Partner, Finance; Private Credit
Marina Begun has extensive experience in complex commercial lending and private credit transactions, including sponsor-backed acquisition financing, cash flow loans, asset-backed loans, special situations loans and fund financing.
Bio
Drawing on her background as a restructuring attorney, Ms. Begun also handles distressed debt facilities, bridge financings and DIP financings.
Ms. Begun advises private credit clients, including investment funds, hedge funds, private equity funds and other financial institutions, on a broad range of complex finance transactions.
Ms. Begun’s representations, including at a previous firm, include:
- a private investment firm as agent and lender in a multimillion-dollar senior secured facility to a sponsor-backed flexible packaging company
- a hedge fund as lender in a senior secured facility to a sponsor-backed health and wellness enterprise
- a private investment firm as agent and lender in multiple unitranche transactions that provided first-out and last-out facilities
- a hedge fund as agent and lender in a multimillion-dollar financing to a sponsor-backed company producing medical equipment
- a hedge fund as agent and lender in debtor-in-possession financing and first-lien and second-lien exit financing to a distributor of transmission and drivetrain products to the automotive aftermarket
Credentials
Education
- J.D., Fordham University School of Law, 2008
- B.A., University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Sciences, 2005
Admissions
- New York
Languages
- Russian
- English
Marina Begun (Zelinsky)
Partner, Finance; Private Credit
marina.begun@skadden.com